We had originally planned to go to Brownsville this weekend to visit my parents. But with the weather being bad here the roads were closed so we couldn't leave. Additionally they don't have a heater in Brownsville and they had to go to my uncle Gilbert's house to stay warm. So instead while Dave was working on homework I took the boys up to San Marcos to . . .
We had the best time. It started out with a train ride (always a hit with the boys) in to a petting zoo (another hit) or as they called it Mystery Mountain and Wildlife Park (a little grand of a title if you ask me, but I digress) . We bought the food to feed the animals (a racked as I paid to get in, now I have to pay to feed their animals) and we were off.
They had a pretty good selection of animals in the park and the boys were throwing them food all over the place. There were also wild turkeys, peacocks, ostriches and fainting goats. The conductor got off the train and chased one of the goats to make it faint. It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I've seen fainting goats on TV before, but this was so much funnier. I along with all the kids started yelling for him to do it again, because it was so funny. He said he could only do it one time to one goat per train ride because it messed with them neurologically if you did it to much. But watching the goat running and falling over mid stride was hilarious. 
Even Turner got into feeding the animals from his hand after his initial trepidation. 
This is Turner just being cute and enjoying the train ride. 
The next part of Wonder World is the cave. Or as they say seeing an earth quake from the inside out. Apparently along time ago the plates shifted and caused a big gap to appear. They later shifted again and closed the gap, but because of the way it closed there were big boulders that got stuck and wouldn't allow the gap to close completely forming a "dry" cave. Dry meaning the cave was not carved out by water like most caves are. It was quite interesting to hear about and as you walked through the cave you could look up and see were the plates had come together and the huge boulders which kept it from closing back up. It was like you were walking right under the fault line. 
Hayden found a couple of young friends in our group and they all went exploring. I'm not sure he got as much out of the tour as I did, but he seemed to enjoy it. 
Turner was not as impressed as he kept bumping his sweet little head. 
After the cave they took you up into this tower that is 190 feet tall. Luckily it had an elevator. At the top of the tower you could look out over the Texas Hill Country and see the rolling hills to the west. And then if you looked to the east you could see the flat landscape. It was such a strong visual of the power of nature. When the plates came back together the one plate rippled the other plate causing the Texas Hill Country to be formed.
After the tower was the Anti-Gravity house. It is a house built at an angle so it appears things are going up hill. At the end were some picture taking funnies so of course we had to take advantage of those.
So we didn't get to go down to Brownsville, but we had a great time up in San Marcos and you would never have guess the day before the city was such down because of snow.
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